Advocacy & Community

October is here, which means it’s National Medicine Abuse Awareness Month. It’s a great time to shine a spotlight on an important issue many of us worry about: teen substance abuse. In our case, in collaboration with our partners with CADCA, we specifically want to raise awareness about abuse of over-the-counter (OTC) medicines and misuse […]

May is a marvelous month – April showers have come and gone, bringing beautiful May flowers, mothers enjoy their annual celebrations of gratitude, and summer break is right around the corner for teens. While May brings a lot of joy, it also gives us space to discuss a very important topic: mental health. This May, […]

Since 1975, the annual Monitoring the Future survey has been conducted with researchers at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a branch of the National Institutes of Health. For 50 years and counting, this survey has been administered to students in 8th, 10th, and 12th grades who self-report their substance use […]

This post was updated slightly in September of 2023. Did you know that one in 31 teens has misused over-the-counter (OTC) cough medicine to get high from the active ingredient dextromethorphan (DXM)? Or that one in five young adults has misused a prescription (Rx) drug? October is National Medicine Abuse Awareness Month (NMAAM) and we’re […]

This handout is specific to pharmacists and retailers in the state of Ohio.

This post was updated slightly in September of 2024. Did you know that according to the latest Monitoring the Future study, one in 32 teens have used over-the-counter (OTC) cough medicine to get high from the active ingredient dextromethorphan (DXM)? The statistics are alarming, but as a parent, you are one of your teen’s primary […]